Program Implementation

Tips to Implementation/Keys to Success:

The ROW program credits the factors below as keys to success.

• Initial investment and buy-in from community partners.
• Knowledgeable staff who understand the role of financial education and independence in mitigating domestic violence.
• Staff who have flexibility and control over their schedules and feel supported by management, which reduces staff turnover.
• Strengths-based curriculum that removes the stigma of being poor.
• Staff who use a peer-to-peer learning model in which everyone has something to teach and everyone has something to learn.
• Conducting program evaluations and including evaluators from the beginning.
• Making constant programmatic changes based on what is learned.

Challenges:

• Funding, especially to implement the REAP Training Institute.
• Growing the program by hiring key staff.